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What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
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Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade
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jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …
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If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture - and China's unique household registration …
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with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …
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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …
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